{"id":1273,"date":"2007-02-04T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2007-02-04T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T23:22:00","slug":"pq-stands-behind-boisclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"PQ Stands Behind Boisclair&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;all the better to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070203.wboisclair0203\/BNStory\/National\/home\">knife him in the back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few interesting excerpts from the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">[Boisclair] argued that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was non-negotiable and should be the guiding principle in dictating what minorities, religious or otherwise should be allowed to do. &#8220;Reasonable accommodations of minorities should not impede on fundamental values such as the equality between men and women,&#8221; Mr. Boisclair said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great to see the PQ embracing Pierre Trudeau&#8217;s Charter which was &#8220;imposed&#8221; on Quebec, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The article goes on to speculate about a February election call for a March 26th vote&#8230;six days after the federal budget comes down. If that&#8217;s the case, one imagines Harper has given Charest the nudge nudge wink wink that he&#8217;s going to be very happy with Flaherty&#8217;s budget. Toss in the speculation about federal elections and that could make for a very interesting week in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;all the better to knife him in the back. A few interesting excerpts from the story: [Boisclair] argued that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was non-negotiable and should be the guiding principle in dictating what minorities, religious or otherwise should be allowed to do. &#8220;Reasonable accommodations of minorities should not impede on fundamental values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}